Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical AnthropologyIn this innovative book, Kirch and Green develop the theory and method of an anthropological approach to long term history. Combining archaeology, comparative ethnography, and historical linguistics, they advance a phylogenetic model for cultural diversification, and apply a triangulation method for historical reconstruction. Through an analysis of the history of Polynesian cultures they present a first time detailed reconstruction of Hawaiki, the